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Educational Survey of 
Tift County 

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M. L. DUGGAN, Rural School Agent 



No. 23 



Under Direction of State 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 



M. L. BRITTAIN 
State Superintendent of Schools 
1918 



Monograph 



Educational Survey of 

Tift County 

Georgia 



By 
M. L. DUGGAN, Rural School Agent 



No. 23 



Under Direction of State 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 



M. L. BRITTAIN 
State Superintendent of Schools 
1918 



GEORGIA. 

NOTE: An experience with county-wide local school tax is the 
most effective argument for it. Counties adjacent to local tax coun- 
ties, seeing- its benefits, most readily vote for it. See map. 




Shaded Counties: County-wide Local Tax. 

LOCAL TAX COUNTIES 

These counties tax themselves in order that all — not some — of their 
schools may be improved One by one others are adding themselves 
to the roll of the educational leaders who demonstrate thus practically 
their belief in the necessity for more and better training for the 
children A few years ago only Chatham, Richmonl, Bibb, and Glynn 
had county-wide local taxation: 

Bacon, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bryan, Burke, Butts, Camden, Chatham, 
Chattahoochee, Clark, Clinch, Coffee, Columbia, Crawford, Crisp, De- 
Kalb, Echols, Emanuel, Fulton, Glascock, Glynn, Hancock, Hart, 
Henry, Houston, Irv/in, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jenkins, Jones, Lee, Lincoln, 
Mcintosh, Mitchell, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Muscogee, Newton, 
Pulaski, Quitman, Rabun, Randolph, Richmond, Screven, Spalding, 
Stewart, Talbot, Terrell, Tift, Walton, Wayne, Wheeler, Wilkes, 
Worth. Total 55. 



TIFT COUNTY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. 

HON. A. J. AMMONS, Superintendent Tifton, Ga. 

MISS WILLIE BOMAR, Home Economics Agent Tifton, Ga. 

Board of Education. 

HON. A. S. MARTIN, Chairman ... Tifton, Ga. 

HON. J. D. COOK Chula, Ga. 

HON. J. J. BAKER Ty Ty, Ga. 

HON. JACOB HALL Tifton, Ga, 

HON. J. A. DODD Omega, Ga. 




TIFT COUNTY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. 



TIFT COUNTY 



Tift county was created by the Georgia Legislature in 
1905, and is located in the center of the finest farming sec- 
tion of South Georgia. The area of the county is 271 
square miles, the population is 8,418 whites and 5,082 
negroes ; the school population by last census was white 
children 2,183, negro children 916. 

The property returns subject to county-wide local school 
tax is $2,100,000.00, to which may be added railroad and 
other corporate property amounting to $922,703.00, or a 
total of about three millions. 

GOOD ROADS. 

Tift county prides herself on her good roads, and few, if 
any, counties have built better ones. The county is spend- 
ing upon its public roads annually about $48,000.00 and 
there is no question raised as to the wisdom of the invest- 
ment. 

PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES. 

The county adopted county-wide local taxation for the 
support of public schools in January, 1906, about three 
months after the county was organized. The Board of 
Education levies the constitutional limit of five mills, but 
this yields considerably less than one fourth as much as is 
given to public roads. 

The amount of school funds received from State 

in 1917 was $10,365.81 

The amount of county local school tax was 10,300.00 

Making a total for support of public schools $20,665.81 

As against $48,000.00 for public roads. 



This amount is insufficient for maintaining the rural 
schools on a liberal basis, and yet it is the maximum limit 
under our State constitution. Until a more liberal levy- 
can be allowed it will be well to strictly limit the small 
fund to maintenance purposes, and resort to other ways for 
raising funds for buildings and betterments. The only 
other ways at present is through bond issues or private 
subscriptions. Bond issues by the county or by school dis- 
tricts would be the business-like way. 

TIFT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

It is doubtful if in any county in the State can be found 
so many organized agencies actively working in such cordial 
co-operation and so effectively for the betterment of the 
public school system and the general welfare of the chil- 
dren, as in Tift county. 

The county Board of Education is earnestly and intelli- 
gently working out the problems of a better rural school 
system. The superintendent is industrious and energetic, 
giving his whole time and thought to the cause, day and 
night, hesitating at no personal expense or inconvenience 
when the educational interest of the county's children is 
concerned. Every other agency is welcomed when working 
for the uplift of the public schools or the welfare of their 
pupils. 

CO-OPERATING AGENCIES. 

The Smith-Lever fund and the county board of educa- 
tion supplies a Home Economics Demonstration Agent who 
aids the superintendent and teachers in promoting the 
"associated activities" in the rural schools, and there are 
both Boys' and Girls' canning clubs, pig clubs, etc., etc., in 
practically every school of the county. 

The county authorities, aided by the International Board 
of Health, maintains a paid County Health Officer, who is 
making an intensive health survey of the entire county 
and devoting much time to the physical inspection of pu- 



pils, promoting sanitation in the public schools, and other- 
wise safe-guarding the health of the children of the county. 
The slogan is, "Health is the best wealth," and the policy 
is one of prevention. This work is under the supervision 
of Dr. R. W. Todd. 

Urged by the appalling high percentage of defectives re- 
vealed by the Selective Draft, much of which could evident- 
ly have been prevented or remedied in babyhood or early 
childhood, a campaign of inspection and education is being 
carried on at every school house in the county by the 
Children's Welfare Bureau of the U. S. Department of 
Labor. This work is being done by Dr. Frances Bradley 
and her assistants, all experienced workers in this line. 
It is expected that through this inspection of the little ones 
and the education of their mothers and the consequent 
enlightened public sentiment, that many babies and young 
children will be saved from disease and death and become 
valuable assets to the county. 

Besides these co-operating agencies there is a county 
Juvenile Court presided over by Mrs. L. M. Bassett, who 
is also County Probation Officer. This appointment is by 
the Judge of the Superior Court under a state law, and the 
purpose is General Welfare work for the county. 

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB. 

Besides these many wholesome co-operating agencies is 
the Twentieth Century Club, familiarly known throughout 
the State as the "Tifton Woman's Club", which has always 
acted in hearty and helpful co-operation with all of them. 
This Club, organized in 1905, has promoted and maintained 
many helpful projects for Tifton and Tift county, but prob- 
ably none have been more helpful or far-reaching than 
their constant care and work for the rural schools of the 
county. The physical evidences of this work are so unmis- 
takable that they are easily seen by any one visiting the 
county schools, or readily recognized in a casual reading 
of the detailed reports on these schools in the following 



pages. It is, therefore, entirely unnecessary to point them 
out in detail. However, for the sake of other clubs and 
other counties, the general plan on which they work may 
be given. The chairman of the Education Committee of 
the club divided the entire membership of the Club into as 
many sub-committees as there were rural schools in the 
county. Each sub-committee, under leadership of a chair- 
man of its own, considers itself responsible for the needs 
of one particular rural school, thus giving to every rural 
school the protecting care and help of a separate commit- 
tee. Thus the work is made co-operative and competitive. 

(See Committees on page 13.) 

It may be added for the benefit of the fearful that all 
of the organized agencies recognizes the Board of Educa- 
tion and their executive officer as the legal and logical head 
of the public school system, and so the work is always co- 
operative and constructive. 

THE SCHOOL HOUSES. 

It is worthy of note that first attention has been given 
to matters of sanitation. From the following reports it 
is seen that six rural schools have put absolutely sanitary 
toilets inside their school buildings. Probably even more 
will have been installed before this report can be printed, 
for it is proposed to standardize all of the schools. This is 
such important work that it is thought best to describe 
these sanitary toilets more fully on another page. 

The school houses are built of the very best materials 
and workmanship, but planned according to the type of the 
best rural schools of a decade or two ago. They do not 
satisfy the demands of present-day school architecture as 
to lighting, ventilation, utility, etc. Few of them have 
windows facing the pupils, as is the case in so many of the 
rural schools over the State, but at many of them the win- 
dow space is insufficient and placed too low and too far 
apart. These defects can be easily remedied, and in some 
cases better lighting afforded by painting the ceiling a 
lighter color. 

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None of the schools are properly heated and ventilated. 
The only practical solution of heating and ventilation for a 
small rural school is the jacketed stoves, which at little ad- 
ditional expense promotes good order and the health and 
comfort of the children. 

The schools are all supplied with well framed pictures, 
and they have been selected with far more than ordinary 
care. 

Most of the schools have been provided with good library 
cases, some with sectional cases, and with small libraries. 
The books in these libraries, however, are not serving the 
pupils very well. This probably is because the books for 
most part seem to have been donated rather than selected. 
Comparatively few are such as appeal to the lower grades 
in rural schools. 

The windows are well provided with curtains and shades. 
The shades are the ordinary kind that roll from the bottom, 
but do not provide for letting in light from the top. 

Floors are well oiled, and all school buildings are 'clean 
and well kept". 

As these reports show, the usual school equipment is 
above the average for country schools of the State. All are 
provided with best patent single desks and good teachers' 
desks, first class blackboards, etc. Blackboards generally 
are put up without moulding and chalk troughs, which 
makes them less satisfactory both in use and wear. Many 
of the schools are not well supplied with maps, etc. It pays 
to supply plenty of tools to work with. 

SCHOOL GROUNDS. 

Titles to most of the schools are in the county board of 
education. Many of them have large areas, and some of 
them are well improved. There are many encouraging 
school gardens and some very beautiful flower gardens. 
Nearly all are fenced. School yards are well kept. 

Generally the playgrounds are ample in size, but little has 
been done to improve them or supply play appliances for 



the children. It has been said that "a school without play 
is an educational deformity". Too little attention here, as 
elsewhere, has been given to employing the play instinct 
of children for promoting their proper development and 
education. Properly supervised play should be provided for 
in every school. 

"School Pigs" are kept at many of the schools, and be- 
sides prizes offered for the best pigs, there is also offered 
a prize to the school that devises and maintains the most 
sanitary pig pen. 

TEACHERS AND TEACHING. 

The professional strength of the teaching force of the 
county does not measure up to the best. Rural school 
problems are more varied, complex, and difficult than in 
cities, and necessarily have less help from supervision. The 
demands upon the teachers are greater, and their scholar- 
ship and training should not be less. There should be no 
weak spots in the professional strength of the teaching 
force of a rural system of schools. Better salaries and 
selections by the county administration would tend to reme- 
dy this weakness. 

RECOMMENDATIONS. 

The most needful things that would ordinarily be recom- 
mended have already been accomplished in Tift county. 
But where so much has been done the few things here 
recommended, if thought to be for the further betterment 
of the schools, will be more easily accomplished. I, there- 
fore, submit for consideration: 

1. The election or endorsement of all teachers by the 
superintendent and board of education. This would fix more 
definitely the responsibility for success or failure of the 
schools. 

2. A gradual policy of consolidation where schools are 
nearer to each other than the law contemplates (four miles 
as the minimum). 

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3. A better system of heating and ventilation for the 
schools. (The jacketed stove is the only system recom- 
mended by any school authorities for small schools.) 

4. Better lighting at many of the schools to preserve 
the children's eyesight. (In some cases this can be done 
by lighter colors, and by using the Draper sanitary shades 
for windows. The window space should equal at least one- 
fifth of the floor space.) 

5. More attention to playgrounds and play appliances 
and supervision of play. The play instinct is God-given 
for a wise purpose. 

6. Promote the school spirit through wholesome rival- 
ries and competition. Organize various contests within the 
schools, and between the several schools in the county meets. 
Keep the public schools constantly before the public. There 
is no greater public interest. 

Respectfully submitted, 

M. L. DUGGAN, 
Rural School Agent for Georgia. 




The Russell Sanitary toilets have been installed inside the cloak 
rooms of a number of Tift county schools. 

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Mrs N. Peterson, Chairman of Education, Twentieth Century Club. 



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ADOPTIVE MOTHERS OF TIFT COUNTY RURAL 

SCHOOLS. 

TIFT COUNTY RURAL SCHOOLS AND THEIR CLUB 
COMMITTEES. 

Ansley. Mesdames J. J. Golden, Miss Effie Scarboro, E. T. Smith. 
Bay: Mesdames J. J. L. Phillips, W. A. Clark, R. L. Bennett. 
Brighton: Mesdames P. D. Fulwood, T. C. Kimberly, E. W. Tullis, 

Tom Scarboro. 
Brookfield: Mesdames W. L. Bryan, J. S. Ridgdill, W. G. Windham, 

Miss Pearl Wade. 
Chula: Mesdames W. H. McCarty, A. J. Kemp, S. S. Monk. 
Camp Creek: Mesdames R. E. Hall, Jr., J. H. Price, S. T. Kidder, 

E. L. Ireland, Miss Leola Green. 
Eldorado: Mesdames Jason Scarboro, V. F. Dinsmore, A. J. Am- 

mons, W. W. Banks. 
Excelsior: Mesdames I. C. Touchstone, J. L. Williams, John Mur- 

row. Misses Grace Schley, Louise Madre. 
Fairview: Mesdames J. B. Murrow, Raleigh Eve, Miss Carrie Ful- 
wood. 
Filyah: Mesdames W. L. Harmon, A. M. Hargrett, Miss Maggie 

Davis. 
Fletcher: Mesdames F. H. Corry, C. W. Durden, R. D. Smith. 
Hat Creek: Mesdames H. H. Tift, M. E. Hendry, J. C. Parker. 
Harding: Mesdames W. T. Baker, Briggs Carson, H. J. Smith, D. 

E. Jackson. 
Midway: Mesdames Frank Scarboro, W. W. Timmons, J. N. Mitchell. 
Myrtle: Mesdames Oscar Bowen, J. H. Young, J. D. Wilbanks, Miss 

Fannie Shaw. 
Nipper: Mesdames L. S. Watson, T. E. Stubbs, G. N. Dorsett, Miss 

Lolla Holder, J. L. Pickard, C. C. Hall, A. R. Chandler. 
Omega: Mesdames H. H. Adams, A. G. Fort, Miss Nell Timmons. 
Oak Ridge: Mesdames J. A. Peterson, R. E. Hall, Sr., W. L. Barlow, 

L. E. Bassett. 
Old Ty Ty: Mesdames J. L. Brooks, W. A. Puckett, Ralph Puckett, 

Miss Ava Baker. 
Pearman: Mesdames B. H. McLeod, W. S. Cobb, Miss Julia Pink- 

ston. 
Pine View: Mesdames C. R. Aven, F. A. Hardee, R. W. Goodman, 

Max Nathan, R. C. Postell, L. A. Davis. 
Red Oak: Mesdames H. H. Tift. 
Salem: Mesdames T. A. McNicholas, Keith Carson, H. M. Reddick, 

C. J. Weimortz. 
Ty Ty: Mesdames W. H. Hendricks, Berry Rigdon. 
Vanceville: Mesdames L. P. Thurman, C. A. Irby, Miss Verna Parker. 
Emanuel: Mesdames E. A. Ralston, Miss Octa Bassett. 

Respectfully submitted, 
MRS. N. PETERSON, Chairman Education, 
Twentieth Century Library Club. 

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SALEM SCHOOL. 

Teachers: Miss Lyda Anderson, Miss Eva Kirkland, Ty Ty, Ga. 

Location: Four miles southeast to Omega; four miles northeast to 
Excelsior. 

Grounds: Area, two acres; titles in Church; grounds unimproved; 
ample playgrounds; no school gardens: no toilets. 

Building: Value $1,600.00; two class rooms; insufficiently lighted; 
improvised cloak rooms; floors oiled; building painted; in 
good repair and well kept. 

Equipment: Single Patent desks and teachers desks; first-class 
blackboards; set of maps mounted; a chart; large globe; 
framed pictures; very small library with case; a reference 
dictionary; flags. 

Organization: Seven months school year; two teachers; eight grades; 
enrollment 102; programs posted; literary societies organ- 
ized; a Community Mothers Club. 

Canning Club Members: Inez Wooten, President; Dibble Conger, 
Vice-President; Lessie Wilder, Secretary-Treasurer; Mary 
Annie Kennedy, Flora Hooks, Katherine Creel. 



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OLD TY TY SCHOOL. 



Teachers: W. C. Mitcham, Mrs. Lula Bryan, Miss Estelle Prine; 
Postoffice, Omega, Ga. 

Location: Three and one-half miles south to Ansley; four miles 
northwest to Excelsior. 

Grounds: Area, three acres; titles in church; fenced and partly im- 
proved; ample playgrounds partly improved; school gardens; 
two toilets in bad condition. 

Building: Value $2500.00; three class rooms; no cloak rooms; in- 
sufficiently lighted; painted; in good repair and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers desk; first-class black- 
boards; United States history map and State map; charts; 
no globe; framed pictures; a reference dictionary; small 
library of thirty volumes in case; organ; flags. 

Organization: Seven months school year; eight grades; enrollment 
107; programs posted; no organized societies. 

Canning Club Members: Gussie Ivester, President; Gladys Matthews, 
Vice-President; Rachael Marchant, Secretary-Treasurer; Lil- 
lie Lawson, Lorena Massey, Alice Lawson. 



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VANCEVILLE SCHOOL. 

Teachers: W. H. Candill, Miss Sarah Elrod, Miss Willie Mae Bowen. 

Location: Three miles east to Brookfield; four miles west to 
Emanuel. 

Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in County Board of Education; 
grounds fenced but otherwise unimproved; small play- 
grounds; school gardens; two toilets in average condition. 

Building: Value $2500.00; three class rooms; badly lighted, (par- 
ticularly Primary room); cloak rooms; building painted; in 
good condition and well kept. 

Equipment: Single desks and teachers desks; first-class black- 
boards; one State map only; two charts; globe; framed 
pictures; a reference dictionary; library of seventy-five vol- 
umes in a case; an organ; flags. 

Organization: Seven months school year; three teachers; eight 
grades; enrollment 125; programs posted; literary societies 
organized. 

Canning Club Members: Myrtle Cooper, President; Evelyn Fender, 
Vice-President; lone Aultman, Secretary-Treasurer; Mary 
Jane Lockeby, Velma Brownirg, Annie Cooper, Lillian Hand, 
Inez Gentry, Annie Ree Kelley, Annie Browning. 



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NIPPER SCHOOL. 
(Standard School) 

Teacher: Miss Marie Stevens, Tifton, Ga., R. F. D. 

Location: Three miles east to Midway; four miles west to Ty Ty. 

Grounds L Area, two acres; titles in County Board; g-rounds fenced 
and well improved; ample play grounds; large school gar- 
dens; won prize for best garden, spring term, 1918; two 
toilets in good condition. 

Building: Value, $900.00; one class room; well lighted; cloak rooms; 
building painted; floors oiled; in good condition and well 
kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teacher's desk; first-class 
blackboards; maps; no chart; globe; framed pictures; a 
good library; good library case; a reference dictionary. (A 
better equipment being ordered.) 

Organization: School year, seven months; one teacher; seven grades; 
enrollment 54; program posted; organized library society. 

Canning Club Members. Mattie Lou Smith, Velma Sumner. 



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PINE VIEW SCHOOL. 



Teacher: Miss Myrtle Dixon, Tifton, Ga. 



Location: Three and one-half miles northeast to Tifton, four miles 
northwest to Filyah. 

Grounds: Area, three acres; titles in County Board; grounds fenced 
and unimproved; ample playgrounds; no school garden; two 
toilets in average condition. 

Building: Value $700.00; one class room; cloak rooms; fairly lighted; 
painted; in good condition and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teacher's desk; first-class 
blackboards; no maps; no globe; no library, a good case; a 
chart; framed pictures; a reference dictionary; a covered 
water-cooler. 

Organization: Seven months school year; one teacher; seven grades; 
enrollment sixty; program posted; no organized clubs. 

Canning Club Members: Ella Mae Moss, Bessie Lou Morris, Willie 
Mae Morris. 



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BRIGHTON SCHOOL. 

Teacher: Miss Mattie Lu Moats, Tifton, Ga., R. No, 4. 

Location: Two and one-half miles northeast to Harding; four miles 
southeast to Camp Creek_ 

Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in County Board; fenced but other- 
wise unimproved; ample playgrounds; no school garden; two 
toilets in average condition. 

Building: Value $650.00; one class room; insufficiently and improp- 
erly lighted; no cloak room; painted; floor oiled; building in 
good repair and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teacher's desk; first-class black- 
boards; United States history and State maps; chart; globe; 
framed pictures; a reference dictionary; no library; an 
organ; flags; individual drinking cups. 

Organization: School year seven months; one teacher; seven grades; 
enrollment 44; program posted; no organized clubs. 

Canning Club Members: None. 



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BAY SCHOOL. 



Teachers: Miss Clifford Heard, Miss Eula Clegg, Tifton R. A., Ga. 

Location: Two and one-half miles northwest to Fairview; three and 
a quarter miles north to Myrtle; four miles south to Tifton. 

Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Trustees; grounds fenced and 
well kept; playgrounds ample; school garden; two toilets in 
bad condition; school pig. 

Building: Value $900.00; one class room; insufficiently lighted; 
cloak rooms; painted; in good condition and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first-class 
blackboards; United States history map only; no charts; no 
globes; framed pictures; a reference dictionary; library of 
twenty-five volumes in case; organ; flags. 

Organization: Seven months school year; two teachers; seven grades; 
enrollment 52; programs posted; no organized societies. 

Caaning Club Members: Miss Cassie Conger. 



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OMEGA SCHOOL. 

Teachers: F G. Clark, Miss Emmie Slaton, Miss Izora Smith, Mrs. 
J. B.' Mallory, Mrs. J. F. Florence, Mrs. G. W. Mallory. 
Music — Miss Ethel Averett. 
Expression — Miss Lola Royal. 

Location: Four miles northwest to Salem; three and one-half miles 
northeast to Ansley. 

Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Trustees; grounds unimproved; 
very small playground, partly improved; no school gardens; 
two toilets in bad condition; school pig. 

Building: Value $3,000.00; five class rooms, some of them separated 
by thin curtains; improperly and insufficiently lighted, ex- 
cept as to first grade room; no cloak room; building painted; 
in bad repair, but well kept. (Movement on foot for bonds 
for a better building.) 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first-class 
blackboards; sets of maps mounted; charts; globe; framed 
pictures; no library; a reference dictionary; piano; large 
flag. 

Organization: School year seven months; six teachers: ten grades; 
enrollment 280; programs posted; special classes in music 
and expression; two literary societies; no community clubs. 

Canning Club Members: Evelyn Slaton, President; Grace Dodson, 
Vice-President; Maurine Patrick, Secretary-Treasurer; Eu- 
nice Martin, Lillie Pearl Cox, Edwina Bussey, Sarah Mal- 
lory, Ada Ruth Mobley, Kathleen Jones. 



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EXCELSIOR SCHOOL, 
(A Standard School) 

Teachers: Miss Sallie Mae Prine, Miss Cora Ross; Postoffice, Tifton, 
Route No. 1. 

Location: Three and one-half miles northwest to Ty Ty; four miles 
southeast to Old Ty Ty; four miles southwest to Salem. 

Grounds: Area, four acres; titles in Trustees; grounds fenced and 
otherwise improved; ample playgrounds; extensive flower 
and vegetable gardens; sanitary toilets inside building (Rus- 
sell System); school pig. 

Building: Value $2,000.00; two class rooms and a reading room; 
insufficiently lighted; cloak room; floors oiled; in good repair 
and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers desks; first-class 
blackboards; no charts; a globe; framed pictures; library 
of twenty-five volumes in case; a reference dictionary; full 
set of maps in case; piano. 

Organization: School year seven months; two teachers; seven 
grades; enrollment 105; programs posted; organized literary 
society. 

Canning Club Members: Bessie Patrick, Lois Willis, Jewell Ford, 
Mary Hardison, Irene Terry, Blanche Willis, Lucy Rossman, 
Ina Lyon, Elma Gibbs, Euston Jones, Sallie Mae Sizemore. 



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OAK RIDGE SCHOOL. 

Teachers: Miss Ranna Ramsey, Miss LaVerte Haisten; PostofRce, 
Tifton, Ga., R. F. D. 2. 

Location: Three miles south to Eldorado; four miles north to Tifton; 
three miles west to Pineview. 

Grounds: One and one-half acres; titles in County Board; grounds 
fenced and otherwise improved; ample playgrounds; school 
gardens; separate sanitary toilets inside building (Russell 
System); school pig. 

Building: Value $2,000.00; two class rooms; improperly lighted; 
cloak rooms; painted; in good repair and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first-class 
blackboards; set of maps mounted; charts; a globe; framed 
pictures; a reference dictionary; library of fifty volumes in 
case; flags; pencil sharpeners. 

Organization: School year seven months; eight grades; enrollment 
96; programs posted; literary societies organized. 

Canning Club Members: Katie Nell Webb, President; Elberta Dunn, 
Vice-President; Jessie Gilley, Secretary-Treasurer; Florrie 
Ray, Ollie Cox, Sarah Webb, Mattie Lu Wells, Eunice Wells. 



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BROOKFIELD SCHOOL. 

Teachers: Miss Maude L. Vinton, Miss Ruth Clark, Miss Clara Belle 
Henderson; Postoffice, Brookfield, Ga. 

Location: Three miles west to Vanceville; five miles north to Camp 
Creek; one mile to County Line, Berrien County. 

Grounds: Area, one acre: titles in County Board: grounds well 
fenced and improved with hedges, flowers, etc.; yards well 
kept; playgrounds small; good school gardens; two toilets in 
bad condition; school pig. 

Building: Value $4,000.00; two story building; three class rooms 
and library room; well lighted; cloak rooms; painted; in 
good condition and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first-class 
blackboards: maps mounted in case: chart; globe; framed 
pictures; library of sixty volumes in case; a reference dic- 
tionary; sand tables; reading table with magazines; organ. 

Organization: School year seven months; three teachers; eight 
grades; enrollment 125; programs posted; literary societies 
organized; a Community Mothers Club. 

Canning Club Members: Thelma Stevens, Verbie Teems, Eflfie Willis, 
Sarah Willis, Lucile Owens, Annie Sweat, Lois Gibbs, Alice 
Jackson Anna Lizzie Bowen, Izara Rogers, Nannie Lee Smith. 



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HARDING SCHOOL. 

Teachers: Mrs. Stella Sutton, Miss Claudia Williford; Postoffice, 
Tifton, Ga., Route No. 4. 

Location: Two and one-half miles southwest to Brighton: four and 
one-half miles southeast to Camp Creek. 

Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in County Board; well fenced and 
partly improved; grounds in good condition; ample play- 
grounds; school pig; two toilets in good condition. 

Building: Value $2,000.00; two class rooms; well lighted; no cloak 
rooms; painted inside and outside; in good condition and 
well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first-class 
blackboards; three maps; charts; a globe; framed pictures; 
a reference dictionary; library of one hundred volumes in a 
sectional bookcase (good selection of books); flags. 

Organization: Seven months school year; two teachers; eight 
grades; enrollment 70, program posted; literary society; a 
community school improvement league. 

Canning Club Members: Martha McCall, Estelle Denby, Willie Mae 
Bishop, Loree Belcher, Ruth Vance, Mary Fletcher, Mozelle 
Simmons, Juanita Jenkines, Abby Dorminey, Sallie Dor- 
miney, J. L. McCall, Alfred Bishop, Roscoe Belcher. 



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TY TY SCHOOL. 

Teachers: J. W. Miller, Miss Ruth Powell, Miss Mary Julia Jordan, 
Miss Charlotte Mobley, Mrs. E. J. Cottle. 
Music — Miss Mattie Joe Mallary. 

Location: On A. C. L. Railway; four miles east to Nipper, three 
and one-half miles southeast to Excelsior. 

Grounds: Area, two and one-half acres; titles in County Board; 
gfrounds well fenced; improved, hedges; ample playgrounds; 
two toilets, condition bad. 

Building: Value $10,000.00; concrete blocks; two story; four class 
rooms and auditorium; well lighted; wide halls used for 
cloak rooms; insufficiently heated by small stoves; building 
in good repair and we'l kept. (Bond issue pending for en- 
largement and improvemer.t.) 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; good black- 
boards; no maps except United States history maps; no 
charts; no globes; framed pictures; a reference dictionary; 
sectional library case with small library; piano. 

Organization: Seven months school year; five teachers; nine grades; 
enrollment 250; programs posted; organized societies; a 
Community Womans Club. 

Canning Club Members: Fay Woodward, Clara Malcom, Annice 
Sumner, Willie Glenn Dell, Nettie Devane, Nellie Willis, 
Eva Hatcher, Clara Shiver, Katie Williams, Mildred Parks, 
Ollie Nicholson, Sarah Redmond, Frances Sikes, Alma Payne, 
Lucile Ford, Lucy Sikes. 



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RED OAK SCHOOL. 

Teachers: W. V. Martin, Miss Mattie Sue LeSueur, Tifton, R. F. D. 

Location: Four and one-half miles southeast to Chula; four miles 
south to Pearman. 

Grounds: Area, two acres; titles in County Board; grounds fenced 
and improved; ample playgrounds; rose garden, shrubbery, 
etc.; two toilets in good condition. 

Building: Value $2,000.00; two class rooms; improperly and insuffi- 
ciently lighted; cloak rooms; floors oiled; painted; in good 
repair and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first-class 
blackboards; no maps; charts; no globes; framed pictures; 
no reference dictionary; library of one hundred and twenty- 
five volumes in case; organ; flags. 

Organization: School year seven months; two teachers; seven 
grades; enrollment 107; programs posted; no organized so- 
cieties. 

Canning Club Members: None. 



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MYRTLE SCHOOL. 



Teacher: Miss Florrie Parrish, Tifton, Ga., Route No. A. 



Location: Three and a quarter miles south to Bay; four and a half 
miles west to Chula. 

Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Trustees; fenced but otherwise 
unimproved; playgrounds small; no school gardens; two 
toilets in bad condition. 

Building: Value $700.00; one class room; fairly lighted; no cloak 
rooms; painted; in good repair and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks; first-class blackboards; no maps; 
no charts; no globe; no reference dictionary; framed pic- 
tures; library of fifty volumes in case; flags. 

Organization: School year seven months; six grades; enrollment 
35; program posted; no organized society. 

Canning Club Members: Lena Coleman, Lessie Belle Lokie. 



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CAMP CREEK SCHOOL. 
(A Standard School) 

Teachers: M. W. Gibbs, Miss Rubye Darby. Tifton, Ga., R. No. 4. 

Location: Three and one-half miles northwest to Brighton; four 
miles north to Harding. 

Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Trustees; grounds fenced and 
well improved; well kept; ample playgrounds; school gar- 
dens; two toilets in good condition; school pig. 

Building: Value $1800.00; two class rooms; insufficiently lighted: 
cloak rooms; painted; in good condition and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first-class 
blackboards; no maps; no charts; no globe; framed pictures; 
library of one hundred and fifty volumes in case; a refer- 
ence dictionary; piano; flags. 

Organization: School year seven months; seven grades; enrollment 
110; programs posted; literary society organized. 

Canning Club Members: Jessie Pittman, President; Nancy Hutchin- 
son, Vice-President; Alma Bellflower, Secretary-Treasurer; 
Mattie Mae Arnold; Elon Brady, Mattie Mae Annis. 

Poultry Club: Ira Hutchinson. 



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ELDORADO SCHOOL. 

(Standard School) 

Teachers: Miss Georgia Morton, Miss Etta Walker; Postoffice, Fen- 
der, Ga. 

Location: Three miles north to Oak Ridge, four and one-half miles 
northwest to Pine View. 

Grounds: Area, five and a quarter acres; titles in County Board; 
well fenced and partly improved; playgrounds ample; good 
school garden; school pig; two toilets, absolutely sanitary, 

(Russell System). 

Buildings: Value $3,000.00; two story building; two class rooms 
and reading room; well lighted; cloak rooms; building paint- 
ed; floors oiled; in good condition and well kept. (The large 
class room used as community auditorium.) 

Equipment: Single adjustable chair desks and teachers' desks; first- 
class blackboards; good supply of geography and history 
maps; two charts; a globe; framed pictures; good library 
case and one hundred and fifty volumes; a reference dic- 
tionary; an organ; flags; sanitary bubbling fountain; pencil 
sharpeners. 

Organization: Seven months school year; two teachers; eight 
grades; enrollment 119; programs posted; organized literary 
societies. 

Canning Club Members: Lucile Tidd, President; Lona McTier, Vice- 
President; Eula Akins, Secretary-Treasurer; Mattie Pearl 
Shockley, Ola Carey, Eva Carey, Maud Yarbrough, Cora Lee 
Griffon, Clara Belle Rutland, Lois Gunter, Jewell Spurlock, 
William Spurlock, L. A. Carter. 



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FLETCHER SCHOOL. 
(A Standard School.) 

Teachers: Miss Myrtle Dekle, Miss Ruth Sikes, Tifton, Rt. A. 

Location. Two and one-half miles east to Fairview; three miles 
northwest to Pearman; two and one-half miles north to 
Chula. 

Grounds: Area, two acres', titles in County Board; grounds fenced 
and otherwise well improved; playgrounds ample; well kept; 
flower and vegetable gardens; two sanitary toilets (Russell 
System) inside building; school pig. 

Building: Value $2,000.00; two class rooms; fairly well lighted; 
cloak rooms; floors oiled; painted; in good condition and 
well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first-class 
blackboards; set of maps mounted; charts; globes; framed 
pictures; a reference dictionai-y; library of forty volumes 
in a case: half a dozen brooms kept in racks; rubber tipped 
blackboard pointers; pencil sharpeners; flags; covered water 
coolers and bubbling fountains; foot mats. 

Organization: Seven months school year; two teaches; seven grades; 
enrollment 70; programs posted; literary societies organ- 
ized. 

Canning Club Members: Myrtice Findley, Louise Griffin, Naomi Bass, 
Katie Lou Bass, Vernon Parker. 

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FILYAH SCHOOL. 
(A Standard School) 

Teacher: Mrs. A. D. Mullis, Tifton, Ga., Route No. 6. 

Location: Four miles northeast to Tifton; four miles west to Old 
Ty Ty. 

Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in County Board; fenced and well 
improved; ample playgrounds; well kept school gardens with 
thirty-five hundred cabbage plants growing; two toilets in 
good condition; school pig. 

Building. Value $900.00; one class room; well lighted; cloak rooms; 
floors oiled; building painted; in good repair and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first-class 
blackboards; set of maps mounted in case; no chart; a 
globe; framed pictures; a reference dictionary; library of 
twenty-five volumes in a case; flags; individual drinking 
cups. 

Organization: Seven months school term; seven grades; enrollment 
43; program posted; no organized societies. 

Canning Club Members: Mary McClelland, President; Stella Smith, 
Vice-President; Jewell Bryan, Secretary-Treasurer; Charity 
McClelland, Lydia Bryan, Margurite Mullis, Evangeline Mul- 
lis, Irene Stephens. 



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HAT CREEK SCHOOL. 



Teacher: Miss Gussie Glover, Chula, Ga. 

Location: Four miles southwest to Chula; no other school near. 

Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in County Board; grounds fenced 
and unimproved; ample playgrounds; flower garden; two 
toilets, sanitary (Russell System). 

Building: Value $900.00; one class room; well lighted; cloak rooms; 
floors oiled; stove well polished; building painted; in good 
repair and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teacher's desk; first-class black- 
board; no maps; no chart; no globe; no reference dictionary; 
framed pictures; library of twenty-five volumes in case; 
organ; covered cooler and individual drinking cups. 

Organization. Seven months school year; one teacher; six grades; 
enrollment 34; program posted; literary society organized. 

Canning Club Members: Mattie Sumner, President; Pearl Sumner, 
Vice-President; Bertha Lee Clayton, Secretary-Treasurer; 
Annie Lou Evans. 

Calf Club: Edwin Sumner, Percy Turner, Herbert Sumner. 

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FAIRVIEW SCHOOL. 



Teacher: Miss Annie Fulghum, Chula, Ga. 



Location: Three miles north to Chula; three miles east to Bay; two 
and one-half miles west to Fletcher. 

Grounds: Area, one and one-half acres; titles in County Board; 
grounds fenced and well kept; playgrounds ample; no school 
gardens ; two toilets in good condition. 



Building: Value $900.00; one class room; well lighted; cloak rooms; 
painted; in good repair and well kept. 



Equipment: Single patent desks and teacher's desk; first-class 
blackboards; two maps; no chart; no globe; framed pic- 
tures; reference dictionary; library of thirty volumes in 
case; organ; grafonola; flags. 

Organization: School year seven months; one teacher; seven grades: 
enrollment 27; program posted; no organized society. 

Canning Club Members: Ella Arnett, Marvin Peavy, Alma Clegg. 

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CHULA SCHOOL. 



Teachers: W. C. Dodson, Miss Reesie Freeman, Miss Clara Nunn, 
Miss Louise Buchanan. 

Location: On G. S. & F. Railway; two and one-half miles south- 
west to Fletcher; three miles south to Fairview; three miles 
west to Pearman. 

Grounds: Area, three acres; titles in County Board; grounds well 
fenced and set in pecan trees and hedg-es; playgrounds 
ample; school gardens: two toilets, condition bad. 

Building: Value $2,000.00; four class rooms; insufficiently and im- 
properly lighted; no cloak rooms; floors oiled; painted; in 
good repair and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first class 
blackboards; very few maps; no charts; a globe; framed 
pictures; library of one hundred and fifty volumes in sec- 
tional case; organ; flag: pencil sharpeners. 

Organization: Seven months school year; four teachers; nine 
grades; enrollment 131; programs posted; literary societies 
organized; no community clubs. 

Canning Club Members: Ruby Fletcher, Etta May Pope, Nora Lee, 
Aline Kinard. 



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ANSLEY SCHOOL. 



Teachers: Miss May Chatfield, Miss Jewell Crum, Tifton, Ga., R. 
F. D. No. 6 

Location: Three and one-half miles southwest to Omega; three and 
one-half miles north to Old Ty Ty. 

Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Trustees; slightly improved; 
grounds fenced; small playgrounds; two toilets in fair con- 
dition. 

Building: Value $1,600.00; two class rooms; fairly lighted; no cloak 
rooms; painted inside and outside; building good condition 
and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first-class 
blackboard; set of maps mounted; charts; a globe; framed 
pictures; library of one hundred volumes in a good case; 
a reference dictionary; flag. 

Organization: School year seven months; two teachers; six grades; 
enrollment 67; program posted; no organized club; no com- 
munity clubs. 

Canning Club Members: Bessie Denby, President; Forest Lindsey, 
Vice-President; Jewel Clifton, Secretary-Treasurer; Beckie 
Bennefield, Dora Hall, Myrtle Branch, Minnie Branch. 



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PEARMAN SCHOOL. 

Teacher: Miss Wortlie Hardison, Tifton, Ga., Route No. 3. 

Location: Three miles south-east to Fletcher; three miles east to 
Chula; four miles north to Red Oak. 

Grounds: Area, two and a quarter acres; titles in County Board; 
fenced and otherwise well improved; ample playgrounds; 
well kept flower and vegetable gardens; two toilets in aver- 
age condition. 



Building: Value $900.00; one class room; well lighted; cloak rooms; 
floors oiled; painted; in good condition and well kept. 



Equipment: Single patent desk and teacher's desk; first-class black- 
boards; three maps; no charts; no globes; framed pictures; 
library of one hundred and fifty volumes in case; no refer- 
ence dictionary; stove well polished. 

Organization: Seven months school year; one teacher; seven grades; 
enrollment 40; program posted; organized societies. 

Canning Club Members: Emma Lou Nelson. 



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MIDWAY SCHOOL. 

Teachers: Miss Mallie Lawrence, Miss Georgfia Bearing, Postoffie, 
Tifton, Ga. 

Location: Three miles east to Tifton; three miles west to Nipper. 

Grounds: Area, two acres; titles in County Board; grounds fenced 
and improved; ample playgrounds; flower and vegetable gar- 
dens; two toilets, condition bad. 

Building: Value $1,800.00; two class rooms; insufficiently lighted; 
cloak rooms; painted; in good repair and well kept. 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first-class 
blackboards; three maps; a chart; a small globe; framed 
pictures; a reference dictionary; library of one hundred vol- 
umes in case; flags. 

Organization: School year seven months; seven gTades; enrollment 
82; programs posted; literary societies organized; Sewing 
Club and Manual Arts Club. 

Canning Club Members: Essie Hutchinson, President; Evelyn Han- 
son, Vice-President; Maggie Sumner, Secretary-Treasurer; 
Eula Kate Ulum, Carrie Sumner, Vera Barnes, Glennie 
Hutchinson, Mary Hutchinson, Debbie King, Eula Daniels. 



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EMANUEL SCHOOL. 
(A Standard School) 
Teachers: L. L. O'Steen, Mrs. L. L. O'Steen, Tifton, Ga. 

Location: In suburbs of Tifton, at Tifton Cotton Mills. 

Grounds: Area, two acres; titles in County Board; unimproved but 
well cleaned up; ample playgTounds; school pcardens; sani- 
tary toilet inside building (Russell System); fenced. 

Building: Value $2,500.00; three class rooms; perfectly lighted; 
cloak rooms; painted; in good repair and well kept. (An 
ideally planned building.) 

Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first class 
blackboards; full set maps in case; charts; a globe; no 
reference dictionary; framed pictures; very small library in 
sectional case; pencil sharpeners; sand tables; individual 
drinking cups; individual tooth brushes, (used regularly); 
flags. 

Organization: Seven months school year; two teachers; six grades; 
enrollment 111; programs posted; no organized societies. 

Canning Club Members: None. 



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TYPES OF NEGRO SCHOOLS. 

There are provided fourteen schools for negroes in the county. 
The teachers of these schools are paid twenty-five and thirty dollars 
per month for five months, and practically all hold second and third 
grade licenses. 

The negro school houses are generally rough, unceiled buildings, or 
churches, and practically without equipment of value. As a rule 
they are kept clean. 

There is a supervising industrial teacher employed for the purpose 
of promoting useful industries in the schools. 




NEGRO TEACHERS TRAINING SCHOOL. 

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ADJUSTABLE ROLLER WINDOW SHADE. 

These shades can be arrarged to let in the light at the top or bot- 
tom, or from the top and bottom at the same time. With the ordi- 
nary window shade the light comes in from the bottom only. There- 
fore, to prevent the sun from shining directly on the pupil it is 
necessary at certain hours during the day to let the shade down to 
the bottom and this makes the room too dark. Adjustable roller 
shades can be arranged to let the light in over the top when the sun 
is low, thereby preventing it from shining in the eyes of the pupils 
and teachers. 



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A jacketed stove in a rural school solves the problem of proper 
heating and ventilation, promotes the comfort and health of the pupils, 
and prevents many problems of disorder. 



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LETTER FROM STATE SUPERINTENDENT 
M. L. BRITTAIN 

To the County Superintendent and Teachers: 

Educational results and good teaching generally are not 
often secured in a shiftless-looking building in which neith- 
er patrons, pupils, nor teachers take any pride. Indefinite- 
ness has been removed at this point through the standard 
school. In the larger towns and cities pressure of public 
sentiment and the comment of visitors will sooner or later 
force good educational conditions — and they are improv- 
ing constantly. Rural communities need to be shown and 
inspired by educational leaders and we have sent diplomas 
to more than two hundred county schools where the super- 
intendents have certified to the fact that they have meas- 
ured up to the standard in every particular. There are a 
number of localities in the State where the feeling is that 
no community in the county is able to bring its school up 
to these very reasonable requirements. I cannot help but 
think that this is a mistaken view and that some standard 
schools could be secured in every county in Georgia and 
that these would serve to inspire the others to progress. 
Superintendents have written that the use of this efficiency 
test has developed more progress in the past 12 months 
than for years previous in the way of improvement. The 
plan is of no value, however, where it is not used or applied 
and I earnestly hope we will have the effort at least of 
every superintendent in the State to have his county repre- 
sented on this roll of honor. The list will be published in 
the next Annual Report. The standard is not unreasonably 
high and no more than the Georgia parent has the right to 
expect. Copies should be posted in every county school 
room in the State and can be secured for this purpose at 
any time on application to the State Department of Edu- 
cation. To be entitled to a diploma a school should measure 
up to the standard in the following particulars : 

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I. The Teacher. 

1. Good Teaching. 

2. Good Order and Management. 

3. First Grade Certificate. 

4. Full, Neat, and Accurate School Register. 

5. Daily Program Posted in Room. 

6. Teacher's Manual on Desk. 

II. Grounds. 

1. Good Condition. 

2. Playgrounds. 

3. School Garden. 

4. Two Separate Sanitary Closets. 

III. Building. 

1. Painted Outside. 

2. Plastered, or Ceiled and Painted. 

3. No Leaks. 

4. Windows without Broken Panes. 

5. Cloak Rooms. 

6. Good Doors with Locks and Keys. 

7. Clean and Well-kept. 

IV. Equipment. 

1. Patent Modern Desks. 

2. At least 20 Lineal feet of Blackboard per Room. 

3. Building Comfortably Heated and Ventilated. 

4. Framed Pictures on the Wall. 

5. Dictionary, Maps and Library. 

6. Sanitary Water Supply. 

V. Associated Activities. 

1. Manual Arts, Corn, Canning, Pig, Poultry, or Cook- 
ing Club. 

VI. Salary of Teacher. 
At least $40 per month. 

VII. Term. 

At least seven months. 

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